Co-founder of PayPal, Clarium Capital Management, Founders Fund and early Facebook investor will be our keynote speaker for this special event.

Wait List Policy. We do not maintain a waiting list in the office.
The waiting list will open at approximately 5:30. We hold all pre-registered seats until 6:30. We will sell unclaimed seats to the waiting list.
Ticket prices: Forum Members: $25. Non-Members: $45. Students with an ID: Free

As a venture capitalist and entrepreneur, Peter Thiel has been involved with some of the most dynamic companies to emerge from Silicon Valley in the past decade. Peter’s first start-up was PayPal, which he co-founded in 1998, and led as Chairman and CEO, now has 90 million active accounts. It also serves as a platform on which developers build customized payment solutions for consumers and businesses.

Peter’s tenure culminated in PayPal’s sale to eBay for $1.5 billion in 2002. After the eBay acquisition, Peter founded Clarium Capital Management, a global macro hedge fund that manages several billion dollars for institutions and individuals.

Before launching Founders Fund with his PayPal partners Ken Howery and Luke Nosek, Peter was an active venture capitalist in his personal capacity, funding companies like Facebook, where Peter was that company’s first outside investor and director

Today he is known as the mentor of the PayPal mafia of entrepreneurs, as well as for his warnings of a coming technology deficit with severe economic consequences. He works to accelerate innovation to prevent such a crisis by identifying and funding promising technology ideas and by guiding successful companies to scale and dominate their industries.

Peter recently launched the Thiel Fellowship to foster the next generation of tech visionaries. The Thiel Foundation will award 20 people under 20 years old cash grants of $100,000 to further their innovative scientific and technical ideas.

Join us for a thought-provoking evening. Students from all universities are welcome and can attend for free with University ID. As always, we will have some snacks during registration and some drinks and socializing in the R&D Pub on the 4th Floor of the Stata Center after the event.

Following Thiel’s presentation, Ken Zolot, senior lecturer in MIT’s School of Engineering and leader of “The Founder’s Journey” class in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, will host a question and answer session with the audience.

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